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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?

Herman Melville

Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
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Forever Marriage Meditation One Liner Water
They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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Dignity Leisure Life Success Talk Work
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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Connection Leaving Ourselves Togetherness
Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.
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Bound Home Life One Liner
You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world.
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Blood Nation Whole World Yourself
My body is but the lees of my better being.
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Better Body Myself
I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
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Easy Life Man Myself Way Youth
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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Better Failure Limitation Original Success
There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.
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Gentle Hide Known Mystery Sea Soul Sweet Talk
There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.
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Charming Comfortable Empty Sadness Unknown
See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Growth Love Oneself Prejudice See
For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.
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Horror Life Ocean Surround
In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.
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Friendship Oneself Security
When the passage “All men are born free and equal,” when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
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Born Equality Freedom Legal Men Slave Writing
The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails whereon my soul is grooved to run
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Myself Path Purpose Run Soul
All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter’s ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.
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Age Crack Life Lying Reality Round Sharp World

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